For the love of god

[bigblkblazin]

Originally Posted by phildogg

My badlands on my slash 4x4 are 4.4" tall. I would assume geared like that he is on grp tires also so around a 4" tire. would drop the speed drastically. Not to thread jack but what's up with the xl2 failures when used in a 1/8th car?

I am using grp tires .... As mentioned above.

[Lizard]

That would be 65mph calculated with 3.7V per cell and 3.82 inch tire diameter.

Sounds still a little high for 4S, but then the Slash is very lightweight and has a lightweight drivetrain. Also the GRPs are only 350g for a complete set. I guess that car is around 3Kg.

I wouldn't have thought that such a setup would make them die like flies.

Maybe try some extra capacitors and make cables as short as possible and use good quality connectors (if you're not already doing that anyway...)

[Thomas Porfert]

BBB,

Please seend the units in and let our repair department take a look at them. As I said before we have a very VERY low failure rate on the Sidewinder 8th ESC. So it is very alarming to see 4 units fail and generally points to a setup issue. We will have our repair techs dissect the units and see if we can determine the cause of failure.

The smaller tire diameter does change the setup a bit, but the batteries are still below our recommended minimum C rating; and if the ESCs are being damaged due to high ripple current then then upgrading the batteries or adding extra capacitors is the only viable option in preventing failures.

Thomas Porfert
Tech Support
Castle Creations